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  • Index Options Expirations Skewer Valentine’s Volumes
    European markets set all-time volume records for derivatives trading in January. NYSE Euronext reported that its Liffe European options and futures business had a 61% increase compared to January 2007. The New York Stock Exchange also said its ETF volumes were up 144% in the same period.
  • Program Traders, News and Investor Relations
    The first full month of 2008 has passed and with it, the initial performance benchmark for traders and portfolio managers. There is a lesson here for investor relations departments regarding month-end portfolio lock-ins and a point to consider if you have news to announce, IROs.
  • Understanding Global Statistical Arbitrage and Investor Relations
    What a wild week in the markets. Exchange volumes boggled the mind on January 24th – and it wasn't driven by fundamental investors buying and selling. Let's look at global statistical arbitrage and what it means from (or to) the comfort of your investor relations chair.
  • Are you striking out with stock surveillance?
    A baseball player who gets a hit once every three at bats is almost guaranteed to be elected to the hall of fame. However, baseball's measure of excellence does not apply to investor relations where IROs and CFOs polled for the October issue of CFO magazine gave their surveillance firms a 29% batting average.
  • Buyside selling and Downgrades
    This week, we highlight a market structure matter observed in at least three separate cases: the actions of sellside desks in and around upgrades and downgrades.
  • Is IR Becoming Transient Like Trading?
    Let’s first take the pulse of the markets this inaugural week past of December 2007. It appeared to us that fundamental investors were most active December 4th, while trading lightened considerably by the 7th and carried the telltale signs of massive risk-management and hedging. IR folks, this means real investors finally followed traders into the maw – we’ve not seen much of that in the past couple months – prompting everybody else to take out insurance on their equity positions. No fund manager wishes to be caught shirtless on a Friday nowadays.
  • What is Market Structure? Tips For Investor Relations Professionals
    In the current electronic trading environment, traders and investors alike react to market structure. In generic terms, Market Structure means the number, size, kind and distribution of participants in a market.
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